Creating the cannabis user

Acevedo, Beatriz

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2006.11.008

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“…Uncritical reproduction of police discourse, for example, has shown to lead to one-dimensional accounts on cannabis-related topics (Boyd and Carter 2012). Additionally, the media discourse on cannabis is prone to change, which in turn is interrelated to the current dominant views on cannabis (Acevedo 2007). This means that depending on how different discourses on cannabis are (de)legitimated, journalism can serve as the provider of counter-hegemonic discourses or the guardian and reinforcer of the hegemony of prohibition.…”

Section: Journalism and (De)legitimationmentioning

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“…Previous research (Acevedo 2007;Månsson 2016;McGinty et al 2016) has shown that the news media coverage of cannabis tends to highlight different health risks surrounding the substance. This is also true for this study, although there are examples in which discourses constructing cannabis use as a health risk are contrasted by discourses that either refute such claims or present positive aspects of cannabis use.…”

Section: Cannabis's Effects On Health and Its Medical Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studying American press, Griffin et al (2013) showed that harsher policies on cannabis made the substance a more newsworthy topic. Acevedo (2007) showed that the media became an actor with significant power in the debate over cannabis and its users. McGinty et al (2016) showed that it is more common for articles about the recreational use of cannabis to be found in newspapers from US states that have legalized the substance, implying that local policy affects how the media portrays the substance.…”

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Rifts in the Hegemony: Swedish News Journalism on Cannabis Legalization

Abalo

2018

Journalism Studies

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This study analyzes the journalistic construction of the ongoing international renegotiation of cannabis, with the aim of contributing to the theorization of how journalism mediates between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic positions at times of crisis of hegemonic values. The study perceives the many ongoing attempts of legalizing and decriminalizing cannabis for recreational use as providing a disequilibrium to the hegemonic view of the substance as a dangerous narcotic that is rightly banned, and as intensifying a hegemonic struggle over the meaning of cannabis. Swedish print news journalism about cannabis legalization in different countries and contexts is studied, using critical discourse analysis. The analysis shows that journalism allows for debate between positive and skeptic discourses about the effects of recreational cannabis consumption and its medical benefits, and that voices that argue for cannabis legalization to combat organized crime are given important framing power. This means that a measure of legitimacy is given to discourses that counter the prohibitionist hegemony in Sweden, which means that mainstream journalism in this specific case serves as an arena for challenging hegemonic values that are in crisis.

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Section: Journalism and (De)legitimationmentioning

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Section: Cannabis's Effects On Health and Its Medical Benefitsmentioning

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Rifts in the Hegemony: Swedish News Journalism on Cannabis Legalization

Abalo

2018

Journalism Studies

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“…Algunos de ellos se centran en la marihuana, analizando las fuentes usadas en las coberturas mediáticas del cannabis (Sheperd, 1981) o la forma en que esa cobertura puede incidir en el consumo, ya sea por la normalización del mismo (Haines-Saah et al, 2014) o la abstinencia (Stryker, 2003). Otros estudios se centran en el cannabis medicinal (Acevedo, 2007;Sznitman y Lewis, 2015).…”

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Dos drogas, diferentes mensajes: los medios y la regulación de la marihuana y el alcohol en Uruguay

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Abstract. Recently, Uruguay's cannabis market became regulated while the alcohol market regulation was discussed. Cannabis regulation policy receives more strong opposition than support among Uruguayan public opinion (Boidi, Queirolo y Cruz, 2016a). In contrast, alcohol regulation receives majoritarian approval (Cifra, 2015). Why are these two regulations, both discussed at the same historical time, receiving such a different support from citizens? Is it possible that media coverage on alcohol regulation is positive, while cannabis regulation is mostly negative? This article analyzes Uruguayan main press media coverage on both regulations, and identifies which are the predominant frames and the differences among the treatment received by each regulation.

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“…law enforcement personnel and politicians) suggests that newspaper stories neglect the structural causes of illicit drug selling, and instead present the issues through a narrow ‘law and order’ discourse that lends itself to calls for harsher legal penalties (Carter 2009). Acevedo (2007) analyzed media messages regarding the UK government's re-classification of cannabis in 2004 and 2005. In describing typical discourses present in the media reports, she concluded that these policy discourses revolved around a binary characterization of marijuana as either poison or remedy, and created a new characterization of the marijuana user as psychotic, reinforcing asymmetrical power relations related to cannabis use.…”

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The privileged normalization of marijuana use – an analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting, 1997–2007

Haines‐Saah

Johnson

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Critical Public Health

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The objective of this study was to systematically examine predominant themes within mainstream media reporting about marijuana use in Canada. To ascertain the themes present in major Canadian newspaper reports, a sample (N = 1999) of articles published between 1997 and 2007 was analyzed. Drawing from Manning's theory of the symbolic framing of drug use within media, it is argued that a discourse of ‘privileged normalization’ informs portrayals of marijuana use and descriptions of the drug's users. Privileged normalization implies that marijuana use can be acceptable for some people at particular times and places, while its use by those without power and status is routinely vilified and linked to deviant behavior. The privileged normalization of marijuana by the media has important health policy implications in light of continued debate regarding the merits of decriminalization or legalization and the need for public health and harm reduction approaches to illicit drug use.

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Creating the cannabis user

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

Rifts in the Hegemony: Swedish News Journalism on Cannabis Legalization

Rifts in the Hegemony: Swedish News Journalism on Cannabis Legalization

Dos drogas, diferentes mensajes: los medios y la regulación de la marihuana y el alcohol en Uruguay

The privileged normalization of marijuana use – an analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting, 1997–2007

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